Janet Vertesi | Department of Sociology

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Just how easy is it to opt out of corporate data collection? Are you just a luddite if you do choose to opt out? And what are the costs?

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To prevent Google from accessing her data, Janet practices “data balkanization,” spreading her traces across multiple systems. She’s used DuckDuckGo, sandstorm.io, ResilioSync, and youtube-dl to access key services. She’s used other services occasionally and non-exclusively, and varied it with open source alternatives like etherpad and open street map. It’s also important to pay attention to who is talking to whom and sharing data with whom. Data balkanization relies on knowing what companies hate each other and who’s about to get in bed with whom.

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▻https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/janet-vertesi
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▻https://twitter.com/cyberlyra

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How did Janet try to prevent companies from knowing about her two #children? The first step was to browse the internet using #Tor, making it harder for companies to track her browsing behavior.

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She has also used the Sailfish OS on the Sony Experia X, which is an #open_hardware design.

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- avoiding the IMEI/SIM problem is hard. Janet is thinking about launching her own satellite
Plaisanterie ?

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